The impetus for this installation by Carrie, came about after a trip back home to Dallas to her old neighborhood.  Searching for an idea, rummaging through boxes of photos and knick-knacks, hunting after her childhood bicycle and hooking up with old friends, led to the first "tracks" being laid down for this piece.  If you look at her floor plan, albeit roughly and abstractly rendered, one can imagine "directions" to some unknown destination(s) - Carrie confirms that these were her various bicycle routes she took to go to the store, to the market or to a friends house. 

I had a favorite route as well, riding my Schwinn 10-speed (YES! a 10 speed), on my way to Capitola Junior High via the required stop at O'Gradys Market for either a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup or a Butterfinger - which led to almost a year's worth of dental work with Dr. Ottinger - I believe between me and my father, we ended up financing the construction of his new dental office.  Vive les Root Canals!

A key element in the work is obviously the Carrie rainbow that takes center stage and influences the choice of thread colors strewn about and piled up in mass on the gallery's floor.  It's an important element that remains as innocent as the day it was painted, and as naïve and undaunted in its objective to be recognized - a lot like what most artists  try  to  be  everyday.  "Duchamp chose to remove his Fountain (basically a urinal) from a plumbing supply store where it was essentially invisible, and placing it in a museum where it was anything but." *Henry Martin